August 19, 2013
There he is, smugly watching your presentation and eager to interrupt. His hand often shoots up, or he simply interjects, with questions that take your presentation […]
August 5, 2013
In a business presentation, you are often trying to persuade the audience to agree with your analysis, support your program or approve your budget request. Most […]
June 24, 2013
Software Programmer and Entrepreneur Michael Heinrichs has a great idea – an online tool to help you map out your presentation. It’s called SketchHatch and it […]
June 10, 2013
The National Security Agency is in the news for this horrendous PowerPoint slide explaining the PRISM data-collection program. I wanted to do a slide makeover to […]
April 8, 2013
What does it mean to tell stories with graphs? That’s a complicated question and one I plan to answer fully in my new book, called “Storytelling […]
March 18, 2013
Some critics have come crashing down hard on pie charts. Edward Tufte says “the only thing worse than a pie chart is several of them.” Stephen […]
March 9, 2013
I’m blessed to live in Kirkland, Washington where I attend church where the minister is Judah Smith, author of Jesus Is ___, one of the top-selling […]
February 19, 2013
We commonly face the challenge of how to place our presentation slides in some order. Should I talk about the problem first? Or the solution? Or […]
February 14, 2013
It’s Valentine’s Day and what better time to review the research on the color red to move an audience. Red has a lot of power to […]